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James Ensor

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Painting of a figure lying in bed beside a tray of glass bottles and a small statue on a pedestal, in warm orange tones.

The Artist's Mother in Death

1915

Pastel still life of red cabbage, teapot, leeks and carrots on blue cloth, with a mask and figurine in the background.

Still life with a cabbage

1921

Still life of a plucked chicken and blue bottle on a green-patterned table, with a red cloth behind, in loose brushwork.

Stillleben mit blauer Flasche und gerupftem Huhn

1910

Colored drawing of a crowded seaside with bathers in the surf, numbered bathing huts, a radiant sun, and caricatured onlooker

The Baths at Ostend

1890

Etching of a reclining skeletal figure with spiky hair and a grinning skull face, on a pale background.

My Portrait in the Year 1960

1888

Etching of thatched cottages, a church spire, and a lone figure walking a path beside tall trees and shrubs.

Cottages

1888

Portrait of a Man

Pencil sketch of a building facade with balcony and doorway, a seated figure at lower left, and a face and standing figures a

House, jesters, portrait

Man with paint pot

1880

Charcoal sketch of men in top hats and dark coats surrounding a woman in a pale dress, drawn in loose hatched strokes.

Wordly meeting

Charcoal drawing of a helmeted figure holding a lance beside a dark shadowy standing figure, with loose sketched lines.

Don Quichotte

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer leading a cavalry charge under billowing flags, with smoke and fallen soldiers in the fore

Charging army

Pencil sketch of two standing men by a tree with a peacock in outline at lower right, on a sketchbook page.

Two gentlemen and peacock

Charcoal drawing of a man's head with closed eyes, framed by dark hatched shading in an oval on pale paper.

Dead monk

Pencil sketch sheet of grotesque jester figures on pedestals, a standing figure, and a rear-view head study.

Jesters

Pencil sketch of a spiral staircase beside a curved wall, with a loose drapery sketch at upper right.

Spiral staircase

Charcoal sketch of women seated at a table in a dark interior, one wearing a hat, on toned paper.

The Master Painter

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of a woman's head with dark hatched hair, plus studies of a hand above.

Sleeping woman

Charcoal sketch of a woman with dark curls and a light headscarf, head turned slightly, looking toward the viewer.

Woman

Sketch sheet of late 19th-century figures in charcoal: women in hats, a standing man, a seated man, and a dancing couple.

Figures

1880

Pen and ink sketch of a crowded beer garden with seated patrons, mugs, a child and a dog in the foreground.

Café-concert à Munich

1880

Charcoal and red chalk sketch by James Ensor showing a large woman's head above small sketched figures and silhouettes.

Woman's head and silhouettes

Charcoal sketch of a group of dark-robed, hooded figures gathered on open ground beneath a hatched sky.

Monks at the ball game

Pencil sketch page with loose studies of standing figures in coats and hats, plus fragmentary hands and drapery at left.

Hands and silhouettes

A Man and a Woman

Charcoal sketch of a standing man in a cloak and hat, with four loosely drawn faces around him.

Don Quichotte and 4 faces

1877

Portrait of a woman

Loose charcoal sketch of a stallion standing in tall grass, head turned to the right, on a pale paper sheet.

Stallion

Colored crayon drawing by James Ensor of a ballet scene with dancers and crowds beneath swirling cloud-like forms.

Ballet scene

1905

Pencil study sheet with a dog head, a seated man writing, a hand with pen, a bearded face and a standing figure.

Theo Hannon

1880

Pencil sketch of an elderly bearded man in a cap, head tilted, with loose hatching on a pale sheet.

Man with hat

1881

Mitche

1880

Three figures

Graphite sketch sheet with studies of several insects, including a beetle, dragonfly and flies, on aged grey paper.

insects

Antique head

1877

Charcoal sketch on grey paper of dark trees and small silhouetted figures walking along a path.

Silhouettes

Pencil sketch of an elderly woman's head with closed eyes, tilted, shaded background, on cream paper.

Sleeping old woman

Charcoal sketch on tan paper of a female figure with bowed head and raised arm, with smudged shading below.

Figure

Heads

Pencil sketch of a dark decorative pot on a ledge beside a pale horse on a path, with loose hatched shading.

Decorative pot and horse

1880

The French politician François Barbé Marbois

Mother of Ensor

1880

Loose pencil sketch of a crowd of mourners in dark clothing beside a church with tall columns.

The soul masses for B. de Haze

Pencil study sheet with standing women, seated figures and a large whetstone on a frame, by James Ensor.

Figures and whetstone

Charcoal sketch of two uniformed soldiers in caps talking, with a drum and bucket beside them on paper.

Two soldiers

Charcoal sketch of women washing clothes at the water's edge, with loose strokes and rippling sea in the foreground.

Wasvrouwen bij de Middellandse zee

Loose charcoal sketch of a seated woman in a headscarf, a standing figure in a dark coat, a dog and a stool.

Seated Woman

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a hat seated at a café table, with a man in a suit seated behind her.

Lady at café table

1880

Girl with white apron

1883

Pencil sketch of a group of figures seated on a ledge, one in a wide-brimmed hat, with handwritten inscription below.

Copy after Salvator Rosa

Scribble

Wide three-panel drawing of a chaotic cavalry battle with cuirassiers, fallen horses, flags and swirling smoke.

The cuirassiers of Waterloo

1891

Pencil sketch of a studio scene with a nude statue on a pedestal, a seated man at left and a figure drawing at right.

The model

Pen and ink sketch of a man with curly hair, pointed beard and a lace ruff collar, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Gentleman

Pen and ink sketch of a woman with head bowed, balancing a large jug on her head, in loose hatched lines.

Algerian woman with a jug

Two women and a theologian

Self Portrait

1880

Loose pencil sketch of a hooded seated figure on a platform beneath diagonal hatching, with a small tower in the background.

Execution by Garrote

Pen and ink sketch of a man and woman seated at a table with a bottle and glass between them.

Lord and lady at table

1912

Man with beard

Sketchbook page with an ink study of a standing woman and pencil sketches of people gathered around a table in a tavern.

Woman and tavern scene

Sleeping mother of Ensor

1915

Charcoal sketch of a drawn curtain and window fragment with loose hatched shading on an irregularly cut sheet.

Fragment of window with drawn curtain

Pen and ink sketch of a reclining female nude with loose horizontal strokes suggesting water or sky behind her.

Resting female nude